Monday, October 31, 2016

How do you give your students the chance to show what they are capable of and give them some control of their education? How do you support students who may go unnoticed or feel left out from their peers? Also, feel free to discuss any other ideas from chapters 13-15.

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Monday, October 24, 2016

How are you a cheerleader for your students? How do you work to maintain a positive attitude and share a positive message?

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Monday, October 17, 2016

This week we are reading and discussing chapters 7-9. What are some of the little things you do to make your students and the adults in your school feel like they matter? What do you do when you have feelings of doubt?

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Monday, October 10, 2016

I was so excited to get started last week that I forgot to give you your reading assignment for this week. We are discussing chapters 4-6. (Each week we will be reading 3 chapters, if you would like to plan ahead.) A lot of this week's reading is about connecting with your students. How have you connected with your students and built deeper relationships? How have you seen this connection really benefit a student (or maybe how it benefited you and your attitude toward a student)? For next week we will read chapters 7-9.

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Monday, October 3, 2016

Welcome to the Fall 2016 eLearning Book Club. We are looking forward to reading and discussing Kids Deserve It! Pushing Boundaries and Challenging Conventional Thinking by Todd Nesloney and Adam Welcome. The digital and paperback versions of this book can be purchased on Amazon. If you don't have the book yet, don't worry. You can jump into the
conversation a little late if you need to. Just catch up as soon as
you're able.

Here are some particulars to help you as you participate in the book club:

A
prompt or question will be posted here in the blog every Monday
morning. That blog post will also include the reading assignment for the
following week.

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Respond
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week. The more interaction there is between participants, the richer and
more beneficial the conversation will be.

In addition to the amazing connections and powerful learning of being in the book club, participants who make a meaningful contribution to every week's discussion
will be awarded 20 PGPs. Additionally, we will award one professional development grant at the conclusion of the summer book
club. Educators working in a public school who meaningfully participate in all ten weeks' conversations
are eligible for the grant.

If you have not already done so, register for the book club by completing this registration form.

We are jumping right in to the discussion, so your first week's assignment
is to introduce yourself in a comment to this blog post and also read chapters 1-3 and respond to this question: what is the biggest fear holding you back from innovating or connecting with educators? Or, if you're doing these things, what are you doing? Just click the
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role there is. (If you have any problems commenting, please email Meri Carnahan at carnahan@doe.in.gov.)